Sentences with phrase «of social niceties»

Throughout the book, Meursault refuses to adhere to social norms such as «white lies», he can not «play the game» of social niceties or cover - ups and, most provocatively, can not engage emotively with those around him, responding passively to key events such as his mother's death, and disregarding the feelings of his girlfriend.

But what of social niceties?

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There, the cantankerous and often brutish physician bulldozed through social niceties and conventional wisdom, ignoring professional criticism and even the pain and suffering of young children to help develop a successful treatment that eventually saved thousands of lives.

We concluded (not incorrectly) that in many cases what had masqueraded as Christian teaching during our young lives was really nothing of the sort, but only Republican Party politics, outdated social niceties, and occasional bigotry standing in for reason where legitimate authority was in short supply.

Any parent with a preschooler knows that teaching the little niceties of social interaction can be a challenge.

You also recognize social niceties; that is, what sort of effort he makes to ask you questions,...

You'll find your own words to use, of course, and buffer them with whatever social niceties are part of your conversational style.

You'll meet many gentlemen here, they're all good at «vanity project», well, which also part of social skills, how close you stand to someone you are talking to, how you act when you two meet or part, and all the niceties of dinner party conversation... But don't assume they are hard to get, you just talking and acting like a socialite, making some eye contact with men, they may give you a clue that where you can go after the party, then further communicate with you.

The aesthetic of 1920s Britain is very well - evoked, and it takes a while to adjust to all the social niceties of post-war England; to paraphrase Mark Kermode's comment about The Shawshank Redemption, there's a whole lot of chariots before you get to the fire.

Pascal lights up a cigarette indoors, he tracks dirt on the carpet, he shatters social niceties, saying to Moll in front of her mother, «Let's go out and get shit - faced.»

Without identifying his place on the spectrum, the film posits Turing as an Aspergers type whose savant genius came easier to him than the social niceties necessary for him to function under military protocol, or as part of a larger team.

In one early scene, the camera zooms in on her thin, nearly always unsmiling mouth, the part of her face that most seems to reflect her steadfast refusal to participate in social niceties.

For some, this question may only suggest that basic niceties or cordiality; however, for me this question aspires to get at the deeply embedded social identity dynamics that constitute much of our engagement.

Focusing on respectful conversation and social niceties may seem to go against the grain in an era of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and accountability.

Most appreciated is the simple fact that Audi's dealers respond as if we're valued customers (not the freeloading journalists we actually are)-- a nicety of social interaction we can't always assume from other premium - brand dealers.

Social niceties might dissuade this kind of violence, but Arms has no such qualms.

In a fast - paced and expanding workplace, such as that in this decision, the arbitrator held that it is reasonable for a manager to have significant expectations of their assistants, to abandon «social niceties like saying «good morning» and to be constantly «intense».

Of course, we all knew that these nods were just social niceties and that...